{"id":70578,"date":"2016-06-17T07:55:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=70578"},"modified":"2016-06-17T07:55:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:55:23","slug":"grammy-museum-mississippi-announces-celebration-of-pride-joy-the-texas-blues-of-stevie-ray-vaughan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/06\/grammy-museum-mississippi-announces-celebration-of-pride-joy-the-texas-blues-of-stevie-ray-vaughan\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAMMY Museum\u00ae Mississippi announces \u201cCelebration of Pride & Joy: The Texas Blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>GRAMMY Museum<\/span>\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> Mississippi will host a concert June 29 at 7:30 p.m. to celebrate the opening of its second special exhibit, “Pride & Joy: The Texas Blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking place on the museum’s front lawn, the concert\u00a0will be headlined by\u00a0<\/span>Wes Sheffield and the Slowburners, along with 17<\/span>-year-old blues guitar phenom Christone \u201cKingfish\u201d Ingram from Clarksdale.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tickets to the show are\u00a0$15 in advance and $20 the day of the performance. Tickets can be purchased online<\/span><\/a>, by calling the museum box office at 662-441-0100, or in person at 800 W. Sunflower Rd. in Cleveland. Food and drinks will be available for purchase on the museum grounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so excited about this celebration of our new exhibit,\u201d said Emily Havens, executive director of the museum<\/span>. \u201cIt will be a great evening of fun, food and terrific music by Wes and his band.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Curated by the GRAMMY Museum<\/span>\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> at L.A. LIVE, the\u00a0exhibit opens June 30 and will offer visitors an in-depth look at the iconic career of legendary bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan. Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie\u2019s brother, serves as a guest curator of the exhibit.<\/span><\/p>\n

About Wes Sheffield
\n<\/b><\/span>Wes Sheffield is quickly becoming an\u00a0emerging artist to watch in Mississippi. Raised in a small town tucked away in North Mississippi, Sheffield quickly developed an affinity for the soulful sounds for which the South has always been revered. He recorded his first album with help from Adam Grace, a native of Tupelo, Mississippi, and member of the six-piece roots rock\/Americana band Truth & Salvage Co. After a hard month of work at Creative Workshop Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, Sheffield completed his debut album “Fever.”\u00a0Encouraged by the legendary Muscle Shoals Swamper, producer, engineer and session guitarist Jimmy Johnson, Sheffield began serious work on his latest record. The new project is being produced by Johnson and Glenn Rosenstein, and recorded in part at Blackbird Studios in Nashville.<\/span><\/p>\n

About Christone \u201cKingfish\u201d Ingram
\n<\/b><\/span>Exposed to the rich gospel music emanating from his family\u2019s church, combined with the blues he heard being played by musicians in his Delta neighborhood and\u00a0at the Delta Blues Museum, Kingfish became a natural sponge of musical talent. Kingfish has shared the stage with Bob Margolin, Eric Gales, Rick Derringer, Guitar Shorty, Buddy Guy and many more. He has played festivals and venues all over the U. S., and has also performed in Washington, D.C. at the White House, right in front of First Lady Michelle Obama.\u00a0This child prodigy\u2019s soul is possessed with the feeling, passion and fire of the much older men who created the most important genre of American music \u2014 the blues.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information, visit <\/span>grammymuseumms.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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